Modern Republicanism had over a decade to prove it was something greater than empty rhetoric, message management and stealing.
Having finally reached a magic credibility rating of zero, added a mile high hill of body bags to their name and fed the entire treasury to backers and cronies. There was really nothing more than obfuscation and lip service to reward the people's needs.
But we all know that ...
Being a partisan Republican is easy, nothing is required of you except to repeat the latest distraction. It's the ideology of noise: Mouth open, brain disengaged, who to hate and who's to blame.
We know that too ...
We spend hours researching and googling press clippings and statements to ridicule politicians and pundits but it's their job to bamboozle, to support the ever the changing rationales and create the new realities .... However, everything Republican Americans have ever said is on record too - They just don't realize it ....
I couldn't think of any Democratic/progressive slogans that weren't clever, funny or true ... but when I started jotting down some Republicanist slogans - it filled a page.
Things I remember you saying ...
They'll take your guns, they'll burn your bibles, the gay agenda! choice is freedom, welfare queens! America: love it or leave it, bringing integrity to the white house, the flypaper theory, last throes, dead enders, Commies!, there was no surplus! lock box haha! meetings in Prague, Nigerian yellow cake, freedon fries, I think I know better what do do with my money, you're either with us or with the terrists, tax and spend liberals, I've never had a poor person give me a job, Clinton did it too, Bring it on! No one's above the law! liberal media! A few bad apples, Saddam hid his WMD's in Syria! USA! USA! #1, It doesn't matter who the president is! we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud, forged documents, Socialized medicine! Don't play the blame game, NOLA dodged the bullet, Activist Judges! mission accomplished, war on Christmas, we're fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them here, Terry Tschaivo is alive! Islamofascists! Langley desk jockey, everyone knew Plame's name, support the troops, democrats are traitors, legislating from the bench! purple fingers! up or down vote! stay the course, adapt to win, mass graves! Democrats are surrender monkeys! Global warming's a hoax! there's no civil war, cut and runners, Axis of evil! debts don't matter, democrats are angry, you're all bushaters! defeatocrats, demonrats ... I'm sure I've missed hundreds.
Just return a talking point list like this to any Republican American email without the need for facts or debunking. Then undermine every new line in conversation with the Reaganesque ... "there you go again with another one of your slogans" and follow it with a Democratic solution.